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  • چونک خوردی و شد آن لحم و پوست  ** رنگ لحمش داد و این هم خاک کوست 
  • When you have eaten or drunk (them) and they have become flesh and skin, He gives them the colour of flesh, but they are still the earth of (His) street.

  • هم ز خاکی بخیه بر گل می‌زند  ** جمله را هم باز خاکی می‌کند 
  • ’Tis from a bit of earth that He stitches the (body of) clay, and then makes the whole (fabric) a bit of earth again.

  • هندو و قفچاق و رومی و حبش  ** جمله یک رنگ‌اند اندر گور خوش 
  • Hindús and Qifcháq (Turks) and Greeks and Abyssinians— all have quite the same colour in the grave.

  • تا بدانی کان همه رنگ و نگار  ** جمله روپوشست و مکر و مستعار  4710
  • So you may know that all those colours and pictures are entirely a mask and deceit and borrowed (ephemeral).

  • رنگ باقی صبغة الله است و بس  ** غیر آن بر بسته دان هم‌چون جرس 
  • The only lasting colour is the dye of Allah: know that all the rest are tied (stuck) on (superficially) like a bell.

  • رنگ صدق و رنگ تقوی و یقین  ** تا ابد باقی بود بر عابدین 
  • The colour of sincerity and the colour of piety and intuitive faith will endure in the (devout) worshippers for evermore;

  • رنگ شک و رنگ کفران و نفاق  ** تا ابد باقی بود بر جان عاق 
  • And the colour of doubt and the colour of ingratitude and hypocrisy will endure in the undutiful soul for evermore;

  • چون سیه‌رویی فرعون دغا  ** رنگ آن باقی و جسم او فنا 
  • Like wicked Pharaoh's blackness of face, the colour whereof is enduring, though his body passes away.

  • برق و فر روی خوب صادقین  ** تن فنا شد وان به جا تو یومن دین  4715
  • (And so with) the radiance and glory in the beauteous faces of the sincere (believers): their bodies pass away, but that remains till the Day of Judgement.

  • زشت آن زشتست و خوب آن خوب و بس  ** دایم آن ضحاک و این اندر عبس 
  • The only ugly one is that (eternally) ugly one; the only beautiful one is that (eternally) beautiful one: this one is always laughing and that one scowling.

  • خاک را رنگ و فن و سنگی دهد  ** طفل‌خویان را بر آن جنگی دهد 
  • He (God) gives to earth a certain colour and variety and value, and causes childish folk to wrangle over it.

  • از خمیری اشتر وشیری پزند  ** کودکان از حرص آن کف می‌گزند 
  • (When) a piece of dough is baked in the shape of a camel or lion, (these) children bite their fingers (excitedly) in their greed for it.

  • شیر و اشتر نان شود اندر دهان  ** در نگیرد این سخن با کودکان 
  • The lion or camel turns to bread in the mouth, but it is futile to tell this to children.

  • کودک اندر جهل و پندار و شکیست  ** شکر باری قوت او اندکیست  4720
  • The child is in a (state of) ignorance and fancy and doubt: at any rate, thank God, his strength is (but) little.

  • طفل را استیزه و صد آفتست  ** شکر این که بی‌فن و بی‌قوتست 
  • The child is quarrelsome and very mischievous: thank God for his lack of skill and strength.

  • وای ازین پیران طفل ناادیب  ** گشته از قوت بلای هر رقیب 
  • (But) alas for these childish undisciplined elders who in their strength have become an affliction to every guardian!

  • چون سلاح و جهل جمع آید به هم  ** گشت فرعونی جهان‌سوز از ستم 
  • When weapons and ignorance are brought together, he (such an one) becomes in his tyranny a world-consuming Pharaoh.

  • شکر کن ای مرد درویش از قصور  ** که ز فرعونی رهیدی وز کفور 
  • O poor man, thank God for thy deficiency (of means), for (thereby) thou art delivered from being a Pharaoh and ungrateful (for Divine blessings).

  • شکر که مظلومی و ظالم نه‌ای  ** آمن از فرعونی و هر فتنه‌ای  4725
  • Thank God that thou art the oppressed, not the oppressor: thou art secure from acting like Pharaoh and from every temptation.

  • اشکم تی لاف اللهی نزد  ** که آتشش را نیست از هیزم مدد 
  • An empty belly never bragged of Divinity, for it has no faggots to feed its fire.

  • اشکم خالی بود زندان دیو  ** کش غم نان مانعست از مکر و ریو 
  • An empty belly is the Devil's prison, because anxiety for bread prevents him from plotting and deceiving.

  • اشکم پر لوت دان بازار دیو  ** تاجران دیو را در وی غریو 
  • Know that a belly full of viands is the Devil's market, where the Devil's merchants raise a clamour:

  • تاجران ساحر لاشی‌فروش  ** عقل‌ها را تیره کرده از خروش 
  • Merchants who practise sorcery and sell worthless goods and obfuscate (men's) wits by vociferation.

  • خم روان کرده ز سحری چون فرس  ** کرده کرباسی ز مهتاب و غلس  4730
  • By a (trick of) sorcery they cause a vat to run like a horse and make a piece of linen out of moonshine and twilight.

  • چون بریشم خاک را برمی‌تنند  ** خاک در چشم ممیز می‌زنند 
  • They weave earth like silk and throw earth (dust) in the eyes of the discerning.